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Yes, language can be a tool of oppression. It's the main mechanism of us/them dehumanization. It's at the border of the socially acceptable and serves as gateway for worse forms of aggression.
Yes, in extreme cases it is true. However, it is precisely those extreme cases that must be about something more important than just status. Merely status-challenging language does not dehumanize. E.g. status-challenging: "X are bad at math", dehumanizing: "X are murderous animals without conscience". I don't think merely status could be a motivation for the later - economics is IMHO more likely.
If you teach your little daughter that women are bad at math, a dozen branches of her possible futures tree are cut off.
Yes. This is a bad thing. This is also not dehumanization nor a gateway for worse aggression. This is something someone would do who would expect to compete with his own daughter in math-related status.
I'm no longer sure we're talking about the same species here.